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Libby Fischer Hellmann's 6th suspense novel, Doubleback, is a sequel to Easy Innocence and reunites Chicago PI Georgia Davis (Chicago Tribune - "There's a new no-nonsense detective in town...Tough and smart enough to give even the legendary V.I. Warshawski a run for her money.") and video producer Ellie Foreman. The women track leads from Northern Wisconsin to an Arizona border town where Georgia learns that sometimes when you cross the line, you need to doubleback. Doubleback was recently selected by Great Lakes Booksellers Association as one of its "Great Reads." Earlier books in the series include: An Eye For Murder (2002), A Picture of Guilt (2003), An Image of Death (2004), and A Shot to Die For (2005). Libby also edited the acclaimed anthology, Chicago Blues. Her short story House Rules was nominated for an Agatha and Anthony award in 2006.
Libby Hellmann's latest novel,Set the Night on Fire, will be out in December (with a nice blurb from Lee Child).
Originally from Washington D.C., she has lived in Chicago for 30 years and finds the contrast between the beautiful and the profane in that city a crime writer's paradise. Libby is the former President of Sisters in Crime, and Midwest Chapter President of Mystery Writers of America. She is represented by the Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency.
August 22-27
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How did it feel the first time you heard someone else read one of your stories? Did you discover anything about your story that surprised you in the reader's interpretation - and was that a good or a distressing thing? AS
I LOVE the way the Sniplits narrators interpret my stories. They are just right on. I wish I'd been able to talk to the narrator who did EASY INNOCENCE -- I imagine it might have turned out differently. That was the big surprise, btw. That I had no contact with the narrator or the producer of the audiotapes.
Who most influenced your writing process, style, or technique?
My writing group, The Red Herrings.
Q: Hey Libby. Got any more stories coming? Gave you a thumbs up rating on House Rules. D. Webb
LFH: As it happens, maybe. I just wrote a new story that explains how my two protagonists, Georgia Davis and Ellie Foreman, first met. I'm hoping it will debut when my new thriller, Doubleback, (which also pairs both protagonists), comes out in October. My third book, An Image of Death, (which again pairs both women) will be reprinted at the same time. So, stay tuned...and thanks for the thumbs up on House Rules, Dave.
Editors Note: The story Libby mentioned has now been published by Sniplits - it is The Murder of Katie Boyle
Q: As a fellow Sniplits author, I wonder if you prefer writing short stories to other forms of writing. Always interested in the opinion of a published writer. Thanks. Tom Anselm
LFH: I like short stories a lot. Maybe even more than novels. I think of a short story as an "affair" while a novel is more like a "marriage." Short stories let me experiment with voices, settings, and even plots more than a novel. However, I like the substance of a novel - the fact that it often says more than you think it will when you're writing it. So I try to do both forms. My original goal was to write 2 shorts stories a year, but I'm behind. Oh well.
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She's uncomfortable with her dad's old employer checking to see if she's gone into the family business, and then things get dangerous. Some violence and profanity.
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If Marge had known their trip to Las Vegas would break all the rules, she'd have gone to the Wisconsin Dells instead. Nominated for Agatha and Anthony Awards in 2006.
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The day Miriam Hirsch glides into his life, Jake begins to understand passion. The day she disappears, he begins to understand dangerous passions.
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When the body of Katie Boyle tumbles out of a closet, it begins a series of events that will, for the first time, pair novelist Libby Fischer Hellmann's two protagonists, Georgia Davis and Ellie Forman.
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Books by Libby Fischer Hellmann
Libby Fischer Hellmann's collection of short stories, Nice Girl Does Noir, Vol. 1, is now available for Kindle
and at Smashwords
Libby Fischer Hellmann's collection of short stories, Nice Girl Does Noir, Vol. 2 (with an introduction by J.A. Konrath), is now available for Kindle
and at Smashwords
Books Edited by Libby Fischer Hellmann